- Bloody Mallory
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name = Bloody Mallory
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director =Julien Magnat
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writer = Julien MagnatStéphane Kazandjian
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starring =Olivia Bonamy Adrià Collado Jeffrey Ribier
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released = 2002
runtime = 94 min.
country =France /Spain
language = French
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imdb_id = 0299556"Bloody Mallory" is a 2002 French film directed by
Julien Magnat and written by Magnat andStéphane Kazandjian . The film starsOlivia Bonamy ,Adrià Collado ,Jeffrey Ribier ,Laurent Spielvogel ,Valentina Vargas ,Julien Boisselier , andThylda Barès . The film's score was composed byKenji Kawai .The film itself is a mix of horror, action, and
comedy in a style highly reminiscent of American television shows such as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." When released in the United States, it was rated R for gore/violence and language.Plot
Mallory (Bonamy) is the head of an elite government-run strike force dedicated to combating the
supernatural . Her team includes thedrag queen Vena Cava (Ribier), anexplosives expert; a mute, pre-teen telepath capable of possessing others named Talking Tina (Barès); and an armed governmental agent named Durand (Thierry Perkins-Lyautey ). They are dispatched to protect aconvent from an assault by a pack ofundead monsters when they are attacked by an unknown assailant. The battle leaves Durand dead, Vena Cava injured, and Tina in acoma . Simultaneously, the newly-electedpope (Spielvogel) is kidnapped by strange, masked attackers who resist the bullets of the pope's bodyguards. Mallory is approached to rescue the pope, a job she reluctantly accepts when she realizes there may be a connection between her team's assailant and the pope's kidnappers.Tracking the kidnappers to a pocket dimension containing an entire village that had vanished off the map several years earlier, Mallory and her team are joined by Père Carras (Collado), a priest trained in the martial arts and one of the bodyguards present at the time of the pope's kidnapping. Their search for the pope eventually leads to a centuries-old
vampire named Lady Valentine (Vargas) and her mission to summon Abaddon, afallen angel that will cover the world in darkness.Casting
According to interviews present on the Region 1 DVD, Valentina Vargas was reluctant to appear in the film, but strong campaigning by director Magnat convinced her to sign on.
Influence and References
Magnat has admitted to being highly influenced by the visual style and hyper-reality of
anime andmanga . This influence is most apparent during the final scenes of the first battle of the film between Mallory and the undead attacking the church.Mallory's appearance, especially her bright red hair and revealing uniform, is highly reminiscent of the main character in the film "
Run Lola Run ."The "
Necronomicon ", a work featured in the horror fiction ofH. P. Lovecraft , is referenced several times as if it were a legal document, including the citing of paragraphs and sub-sections relating to the conditions of summoning a demon.External links
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